Post by foolinator on Feb 17, 2007 9:19:20 GMT 7
Here's the situation:
1) I have two 1 GB connections on my PC
2) I have a wireless router I use to connect to the internet, but it's 100T
3) I want to use one connection to go directly to my Thecus via WAN while the other connection to the router, which will handle all Internet traffic (because I don't want to buy a new router)
Some people have reported that using a WAN connection that they can't see the thecus drive and can only see it in a LAN port.
The Thecus WAN port's IP address is 192.168.1.100. If you ran into this problem it's because your interface to your router is not on the same subnet as the WAN.
Here's how to fix this problem and dedicate one of your network cards to handle the thecus traffic.
First, buy a new 1GB switch. This switch will be used for thecus traffic and not be used for the router. It'll allow for faster connections to the thecus without causing collisions in your internet connection (and prevent gateway/resolution traffic from going TO the 100T router). I bought a netgear GS108, which has 8 ports and supports jumbo frames of size 9000. It costs around $70. There's a 4 port that runs under $50 (GS104).
Next, connect the thecus to the new switch from the WAN port. Then, connect one of your network cards to the switch, and configure the network card with the following stats:
IP address: 192.168.1.101 (or any number from 2 to 254 instead of 101)
Subnet: 255.255.255.0
Don't need to worry about a gateway
Connect your second network card to your internet router. At this point, you have 2 conflicting cards hooked up to windows, and windows will probably automatically favor the switch.
To solve this, you have to manually use the "route" command from a prompt. Here's how:
1) Start->Run->
2) Type cmd <enter>
3) a prompt appears, type "route print"
at this point your routing table is printed. You may see the following:
What this says:
The default gateway is my thecus WAN and the default internet connections are going to the WAN. This is wrong.
To delete it:
Determine which connection is used for the internet, in my case it's 0xd0004. Take note of the thecus connection interface (bolded above). It's 0xd0003 in my case.
Delete the default route:
Done! Now local traffic will go to the thecus (for file and print sharing) and internet traffic will go to the router. The thecus will run at a 1gb connection speed. Look on this message board on how to setup jumbo frames if your network cards supports it.
Let me know if this helps.
Regards,
Kristian Rickert
p.s. USE CAT6 CABLES!!! Spend the extra $40 to do this.. you won't regret it. Also, you may want to see about turning link aggregation on to speed up things a bit. I have not yet experimented with this yet.
p.s.s. You'll have to redo this if you reset your machine - if someone here is good at windows scripting please tell me how to do this in an automated way.
1) I have two 1 GB connections on my PC
2) I have a wireless router I use to connect to the internet, but it's 100T
3) I want to use one connection to go directly to my Thecus via WAN while the other connection to the router, which will handle all Internet traffic (because I don't want to buy a new router)
Some people have reported that using a WAN connection that they can't see the thecus drive and can only see it in a LAN port.
The Thecus WAN port's IP address is 192.168.1.100. If you ran into this problem it's because your interface to your router is not on the same subnet as the WAN.
Here's how to fix this problem and dedicate one of your network cards to handle the thecus traffic.
First, buy a new 1GB switch. This switch will be used for thecus traffic and not be used for the router. It'll allow for faster connections to the thecus without causing collisions in your internet connection (and prevent gateway/resolution traffic from going TO the 100T router). I bought a netgear GS108, which has 8 ports and supports jumbo frames of size 9000. It costs around $70. There's a 4 port that runs under $50 (GS104).
Next, connect the thecus to the new switch from the WAN port. Then, connect one of your network cards to the switch, and configure the network card with the following stats:
IP address: 192.168.1.101 (or any number from 2 to 254 instead of 101)
Subnet: 255.255.255.0
Don't need to worry about a gateway
Connect your second network card to your internet router. At this point, you have 2 conflicting cards hooked up to windows, and windows will probably automatically favor the switch.
To solve this, you have to manually use the "route" command from a prompt. Here's how:
1) Start->Run->
2) Type cmd <enter>
3) a prompt appears, type "route print"
at this point your routing table is printed. You may see the following:
Interface List
0x1 ........................... MS TCP Loopback interface
[b]0xd0003[/b] ...00 16 17 6e 99 99 ...... NVIDIA nForce Networking Controller #2 - Packet Scheduler Miniport
[b]0xd0004[/b] ...00 16 17 6e 99 98 ...... NVIDIA nForce Networking Controller - Packet Scheduler Miniport
===========================================================================
===========================================================================
Active Routes:
Network Destination Netmask Gateway Interface Metric
0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 192.168.1.100 192.168.1.101 10
0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 192.168.2.1 192.168.2.101 20
127.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 1
192.168.1.0 255.255.255.0 192.168.1.101 192.168.1.101 10
192.168.1.101 255.255.255.255 127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 10
192.168.1.255 255.255.255.255 192.168.1.101 192.168.1.101 10
192.168.2.0 255.255.255.0 192.168.2.101 192.168.2.101 20
192.168.2.101 255.255.255.255 127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 20
192.168.2.255 255.255.255.255 192.168.2.101 192.168.2.101 20
224.0.0.0 240.0.0.0 192.168.1.101 192.168.1.101 10
224.0.0.0 240.0.0.0 192.168.2.101 192.168.2.101 20
255.255.255.255 255.255.255.255 192.168.1.101 192.168.1.101 1
255.255.255.255 255.255.255.255 192.168.2.101 192.168.2.101 1
Default Gateway: 192.168.1.100
===========================================================================
Persistent Routes:
None
What this says:
The default gateway is my thecus WAN and the default internet connections are going to the WAN. This is wrong.
To delete it:
Determine which connection is used for the internet, in my case it's 0xd0004. Take note of the thecus connection interface (bolded above). It's 0xd0003 in my case.
Delete the default route:
route delete 0.0.0.0 mask 0.0.0.0 if 0xd0003
Done! Now local traffic will go to the thecus (for file and print sharing) and internet traffic will go to the router. The thecus will run at a 1gb connection speed. Look on this message board on how to setup jumbo frames if your network cards supports it.
Let me know if this helps.
Regards,
Kristian Rickert
p.s. USE CAT6 CABLES!!! Spend the extra $40 to do this.. you won't regret it. Also, you may want to see about turning link aggregation on to speed up things a bit. I have not yet experimented with this yet.
p.s.s. You'll have to redo this if you reset your machine - if someone here is good at windows scripting please tell me how to do this in an automated way.
I already have a wireless router that's 100T. I didn't want to spend $200 on a new wireless router - and the wireless routers that do 1gbit connections don't seem to support jumbo frames.